Christine Westermann, an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, is trusted by a wide audience for her book recommendations. For her, it’s impossible to imagine her life today without books – they are windows into an unfamiliar life. Yet she did not come to books naturally; the path was more of an obstacle course.
Elegantly, honestly and with wonderful self-irony, Christine Westermann writes about how she found her way to books (and Thomas Mann) – and, in the process, embarks on a captivating journey through time to her own family history, which is marked by fractures.
